News Production: Shoot 1-Live Broadcast Shoot

Today was our first shoot day, and I feel it was a success overall given we were a team member short (Gavin booked the equipment out but was unavailable for the shoot) so it was going to be a bit more of a struggle. Simon was also running a little late for the shoot, but fortunately he made it just in time to be sound op.

When it came to the interview we had 20minutes to interview our student nurse. It was a possibility that we would be interviewing two student nurses but one was called to duty to work during lunch. This wasn’t a problem as we still managed to grab a good interview with the one (Emma). It would’ve been good to have another opinion but thats just the way live broadcast goes sometimes, and something we couldn’t help; we were lucky enough to be able to secure the one interview in the first place.

If I could change one thing it would be to set-up clip mics but because we were so limited for time. We came across some issues and with eh clip mics and because we had to be fast paced with this we weren’t able to set them up properly, and resorted to using the boom. This was frustrating for me as the traffic we previously recced was even worse today there was a fair bit of background noise. After looking at the footage in Premier Pro CC 2017, I found it wasn’t the breaking of our live interview but it to cancel out some of Emma as she wasn’t so loud when talking which isn’t her fault, just one of those things.
We were lucky that we knew where we were parking, as there was heavy amounts of traffic and there was little in the way of parking.

We had these questions prepared based on what we wanted to know and initially planned for two nurses. However, one was called for interview at the time of our shoot which unfortunately clashed, so I had to work around this and mix the questions up to merge into one interview.

After setting up I decided to do a walk in introduction to Emma as planned so I start with a PTC (piece to camera). I then meet her and begin with my questions. After filming this we went onto filming some PTCs. Jack had some good ideas as to what to film including a ECU (extreme close up) of the pens/nurse logo on Emma’s shirt and the hand cleansing gel. I wanted to take some establishing shots of the hospital NHS sign and ambulances.




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